The Legacy of John Ross

1876 Mandarin Primer, Being Easy Lessons for Beginners, Transliterated According to the European Mode of Using Roman Letters. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.

1877 Chinese Foreign Policy. Shanghai: Celestial Empire.

1877 Corean Primer: Being Lessons in Corean on All Ordinary Subjects, Transliterated on the Principles of the Mandarin Primer. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.

1879 History of Corea, Ancient and Modern, with Description of Manners, Customs, Language, and Geography. Paisley, Scotland: Parlane J. Parlane R. ,

1880 The Manchus; or, the Reigning Dynasty of China: Their Rise and Progress. Paisley, Scotland: Parlane J. Parlane R. , 1882 Korean Speech, with Grammar and Vocabulary. Shanghai: Kelly Walsh . 1887 Yesu syonggyo chyonsyo (The complete writings of the holy religion of Jesus). Shenyang: Wenkuang shuyuan. Complete Korean translation of the New Testament.

1889 Old Wang, the First Chinese Evangelist in Manchuria: A Sketch of His Life and Work, with a Chapter upon Native Agency in Chinese Missions. London: Religious Tract Society.

1901 The Boxers in Manchuria. Shanghai: North China Herald. 1903 Mission Methods in Manchuria. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson Ferrier .

1908 The Marvelous Story of the Revival in Manchuria. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson Ferrier . 1909 The Original Religion of China. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson Ferrier . 1916 The Origin of the Chinese People. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson Ferrier .

1874 “Visit to the Corean Gate.” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 5, p. 347–54.

1883 “Corean New Testament.” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 14, pp. 491–97.

1885 “Journey to the Corean Valleys: Religious Awakening, Numerous Baptisms.” Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church, pp. 321–26.

1890 “The Chinese Missionary Problem.” Missionary Review of the World 3, no. 12, pp. 901–07.

1890 “The Christian Dawn in Korea.” Missionary Review of the World 3, no. 4, pp. 241–18.

1891 “Paul the Missionary,” Missionary Review of the World 4, no. 9, pp. 677–81.

1892 “How the Gospel Spreads in China,” Missionary Review of the World 5, pp. 97–100.

The principal written resources for the life and work of John Ross are contained in the archives of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and its successor denominations, which are held in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, and in Ross's reports to the mission board in Edinburgh, which were printed in the United Presbyterian Missionary Records and its successor publications. Certain information about Ross's early life in this article were obtained from interviews with villagers in Balintore in 1978.

Sung Choi II . “John Ross (1842–1915) and the Korean Protestant Church: The First Korean Bible and Its Relation to the Protestant Origins in Korea.” Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1992.

Christie Dugald Mrs. . “Pioneers: The Rev. John Ross, Manchuria.” Life and Work: The Record of the Church of Scotland for 1934, pp. 76–78.

Grayson Huntley James . “The Manchurian Connection: The Life and Work of the Rev. Dr. John Ross.” Korea Observer: A Quarterly Journal 15, no. 3 (1984): 345–60.

Grayson Huntley James ., “A Spark in North East Asia: A Personal Hagiography of a Scottish Missionary to Manchuria: John Ross (1842–1915).” In Sainthood Revisioned: Studies in Hagiography and Biography, Ed. Binfield Clyde . Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Kim Chong-Hyon (Korean name for Grayson James H. ). Na Yohan: Han'gug-ui ch'ot son'gyo-sa (John Ross: Korea's First Missionary). Taegu, Korea: Kyemyong Univ. Press, 1982. Biography in Korean.

Orr James . “The Gospel in Corea: Notes of an Address by the Rev. John Ross.” Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church, June 1890, pp. 186–88.

Webster James . “The Maker of the Manchurian Mission: An Appreciation of the Late Rev. John Ross, D.D.” Record of the Home and Foreign Mission Work of the United Free Church of Scotland 15 (1915): 394–97.